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Jun 4, 2010 -- 9:07PM, Vamroc wrote:

Here we go again I've explained it before Forgotten Realms is the umbrella under which LFR operates Dark Sun is a "Forgotten Realm", Eberron is a "Forgotten Realm", right on down the line. Almost anything that comes from a "Forgotten Realm" like Spell Jammers, Planscape, Dragonlance, Ravenloft (I know but a person can dream) will be allowed in LFR love it or hate it.   

And, here I go again...I've explained this before, too.  Your presumption that the name "Forgotten Realms" makes the campaign world a catch-all for every other campaign world is incorrect.  "Forgotten Realms" was the name which Ed Greenwood (creator of the setting) gave to it when he first started writing fantasy fiction in it as a kid, around 1967.  It was the name which Greenwood used when he first started publishing articles in Dragon magazine about his home D&D campaign, around 1982.  And, thus, it was the name that the setting had when TSR bought the rights to it from Greenwood in the late 1980s.

Certain other campaign settings (at least, before 3E) -- Spelljammer and Planescape, at least, and maybe Ravenloft, too -- acted as sort of "meta-worlds", interconnecting various other TSR campaign settings.  That *doesn't* mean that Spelljammer, for example, became part of the Realms...it meant that players, using the Spelljammer setting, could travel, if they wanted to, between, say, Toril and Greyhawk. 

Since the 3E reboot of the Realms, however, there has been *no* canon connection between the Realms (defined as Abeir-Toril) and any other campaign setting / game world.

Now, in the 4E/LFR era, the LFR staff has been given instructions to include as much from the other campaign setting books (Eberron last year, Dark Sun this year) as they could...assuming they could make such items fit in the Realms campaign setting.  For example, Warforged, from the Eberron setting, are allowed...but, in LFR, a Warforged is *not* a refugee from Eberron; he's native to Abeir-Toril (and one doesn't need to work too hard to figure out a reasonably feasible backstory for the existance of Warforged in the Realms, which has *nothing* to do with Eberron).  Conversely, the staff decided to exclude dragonmarks, because they don't fit well with the Realms setting; nor can your LFR cleric be a worshipper of a deity from the Eberron setting, because they simply do not exist in the Realms.  If your supposition that "Eberron is a 'Forgotten Realm'" were true, then those would be allowed in LFR, as well.

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